The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except " Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.